India Successfully Test Fired Supersonic Cruise Missile ‘BrahMos’ On 21st May 2018

India's DRDO Successfully Test Fired Supersonic Cruise Missile ‘BrahMos’ On 21st May 2018- Details, Features

India has successfully test-fired the Indo-Russian joint venture ‘BrahMos’ supersonic cruise missile (SCM) to validate some new features on 21st May 2018 from a test range along the Odisha coast.

The BrahMos missile was test-fired at 10.40 AM from a mobile launcher stationed at Launchpad-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near Odisha coast.

As per the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials, the test was carried out to validate its "life extension" technologies developed for the first time in India by DRDO and team BrahMos.

BrahMos missile successful test will result in huge savings of replacement cost of missiles held in the inventory of the Indian Armed Forces.

BrahMos is a two-stage missile - first being solid and the second one, a ramjet liquid propellant - has already been introduced in the Indian Army and Indian Navy, while the Air Force version had been successfully tested.

BrahMos missile variants can be launched from land, air, sea and underwater. It was launched from a Sukhoi-30 MKI combat jet for the first time against a target in the Bay of Bengal in November 2017.

BrahMos, the supersonic cruise missile was the last test fired in March 2018 from Pokhran test range in Rajasthan.

According to a DRDO report, BrahMos, the fastest cruise missile in the world co-developed by India and Russia, will be breaching the Mach 7 barrier to become a 'hypersonic' system in the coming 10 years.

India’s Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman congratulated DRDO scientists and team BrahMos for the successful launch of BrahMos missile with new technology.